Martin Canning says Hamilton can enjoy a successful season if they continue to work as hard as they did against Rangers at Ibrox.

But the gaffer says Accies need to forget about drawing against the Glasgow giants and focus on clashing with Morton in the last 16 of the Betfred Cup this evening.

Jim Duffy’s Greenock side visit the SuperSeal Stadium looking to take a scalp in the League Cup, and Canning knows Hamilton will have to be on top of their game.

He said: “If we all work together and stick to the plan, and everybody works that hard, we can be successful, we can win games. We can obviously go to places like Ibrox and perform well.

“However, it’s done now, in the respect that you have to try and forget about it, but take the positives from it as well.

“We’re looking to start the season as well as we can, you want to try and pick up positive results, and getting through the League Cup group stages and going to Ibrox and getting a positive result, with a good performance, means that we have to try and build on it, but we also have to try and forget about it.

“It’s trying to strike that balance to make sure you re-focus well enough to go and do your job against Morton on Tuesday and against Kilmarnock the following Saturday again it becomes a different 90 minutes and a different 11 players.”

Canning was understandably delighted with the performance his side put in as they drew 1-1 against Rangers at a packed Ibrox, in particular goal hero Ali Crawford, who famously scored the winner against Celtic at Parkhead in October 2014.

The gaffer said: “Ali has done that time and time again over the last few seasons so it’s no shock to us to see it. Doing it on a stage like that means it will probably get more publicity than it would normally get, but for us it’s another kid that has come through our Academy, has gone into the first team, has progressed, and is doing really well.

“It’s great to see; Ali is a gifted footballer, and he worked so hard, so his goal topped it off.”

Canning added: “I can’t fault anybody. Right from the start, and from the keeper right through, it was fantastic with the effort they put in.

“Darren Lyon hasn’t had much football, but came on and fitted in like he hadn’t missed a game – but he has missed three-and-a-half months, and he nearly scored. Young Ronan Hughes came on at 17, and we had Eamonn Brophy coming off the bench as well.

“There are a lot of positives, but I keep on saying that you’ve got to try and take that, but re-focus, because we have the game against Morton.”